Northern Ireland Leader Threatens to Quit

Peter Robinson Calls for Probe of Amnesty in 1982 Bombing

By

Nicholas Winning

Feb. 26, 2014 2:17 p.m. ET

LONDON—The leader of Northern Ireland's devolved administration threatened to quit Wednesday unless the British government launched an inquiry into a form of amnesty that allowed a man suspected of killing four soldiers in an Irish Republican Army bombing in 1982 to walk free.

However, in a sign that First Minister Peter Robinson's call may be answered, Prime Minister David Cameron said there would be a review of the case.